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Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.
Christopher Marlowe
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Christopher Marlowe
Age: 29 †
Born: 1564
Born: February 23
Died: 1593
Died: May 30
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Kit Marlowe
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You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell.
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Till swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And, melting, Heavens conspir'd his overthrow.
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... when all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that are not heaven.
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Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?
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Unhappy spirits that fell with Lucifer, / Conspired against our God with Lucifer, / And are for ever damned with Lucifer.
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